The Cardinal Cushing Library, open to all members of the Emmanuel College community, houses reference and circulating collections as well as interdisciplinary online databases and journals. The library holds over 140,000 print and electronic titles that support all academic disciplines of the College and more than 215,000 items in all formats; e.g., books, e-books, CDs, videos, reference materials, and special collections. We hold more than 2,000 active journal subscriptions in print or online; 59 online reference and full-text database resources, most of which are available off-campus; and multimedia materials. The library's automated network, Fenway Libraries Online (FLO), provides online access to Emmanuel's collections as well as to the collections of nine other area institutions. Emmanuel College, together with Emerson College, Wheelock College, Massachusetts College of Art, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences, New England College of Optometry, New England Conservatory of Music, Lesley University, Wentworth Institute of Technology, the Museum of Fine Arts and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts form the FLO network, which maintains a shared online catalog of their respective holdings, offers walk-in circulation and reference privileges, and provides interlibrary loan services with document delivery of books and journal articles. The Cardinal Cushing Library is also a member of the 17-library Fenway Library Consortium (FLC), which provides students and faculty access to the more than 1.5 million volumes collectively held. The Fenway Library Consortium includes Hebrew College, Simmons College, Suffolk University, Roxbury Community College, the Brookline Public Library, New England Institute of Art, the University of Massachusetts Boston, and the ten members of Fenway Libraries Online. All 17 institutions provide open access to their collections and most offer circulation privileges. Two self-paced tutorials, available on the Tutorials page of the Library Web site (http://www1.emmanuel.edu/library), will be helpful for nursing students. The Introduction to Library Resources for Emmanuel College BSN Program was created by our Reference Department and covers search strategies for our nursing students using the Library’s online catalog and journal and research databases. In addition, a tutorial on the APA Style of citation
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